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Archive for March, 2008

Heavy

I’ve kind of had heavy boots for awhile so I’ve been looking around for something to cheer me up, and I’ve really started to realize – it’s hard to stay happy! It’s hard to be funny, too. Especially on paper. I watched the movie Crash today and I can’t decide whether it makes me feel [...]

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Yesterday I realized that I spend a lot of time saying “when I have time.” When I have time I’ll get ahead in my assignments. When I have time I’ll work on stuff for the Coeval. When I have time I’ll start sending stuff out. When I have time I’ll look for internships. When I [...]

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The Process

This morning at 12:07 I was boarding the shuttle on my way to work. I get a phone call from my best friend and she tells me that the first of us – the class of 2005 died in a car wreck last night while driving on a road I’ve driven on a thousand times. [...]

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The Original

Buddy Holly
No one else comes close. Everyone else just seems like a pale imitation.
Seriously. Buddy Holly was the original “geek” rocker. Sure we have:

Rivers Cuomo (Weezer)

Liam Lynch

Forrest Kline (Hellogoodbye)
and even to some extent…

David Crowder
But Holly was the first. In my opinion, Buddy Holly is the reason rock and roll and consequently alternative, punk, ska, emo, basically [...]

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The Inevitable

question that happened to be realized today during chapel while he was talking about robots. The question is not am I a writer or even will I succeed as a writer. The question is: what kind of writer will I be? Will I choose to take the easy route as Liam said and write only [...]

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Liam

Hello all! For the past couple of days I’ve been watching Liam Lynch’s podcast called Lynchland, and it is AMAZING. For those who don’t know, Liam Lynch made a puppet show for MTV a few years back named Sifl and Olly. He is a musician and writes a lot of songs to accompany his cartoons [...]

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Dance, Dance

I listen to a lot of music that features a lot of guitar and piano. I adore guitars – they’re actually my favorite instrument to listen to. Like most people I usually notice the guitarists and lead singers in a band. I rarely recognize the drummer, and if I do it’s just process of elimination. [...]

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